22nd San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival

3/5/04 to 3/10/04

  • 15, March 6. Photo: King Li

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Past Films

  • Invisible Light

    Friday, March 5 7pm
    A remarkable achievement of psychological cinema, this achingly beautiful film from South Korea offers an unflinching gaze into two women's darkest hours. Please note: Due to a scheduling conflict, Ms. Kim will be unable to attend this screening as announced in BAM/PFA Art & Film Notes.
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  • See You Off to the Edge of Town

    Friday, March 5 9pm
    Ching C. Ip in Person. This fun and witty road movie is also the bittersweet story of a Chinese family's reunion and separation.
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  • A Good Lawyer's Wife

    Saturday, March 6 7pm
    Im Sang-soo in Person. A husband's affair causes his wife to look for love in unusual places in this provocative Korean hit.
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  • 15

    Saturday, March 6 9:30
    Royston Tan in Person. High-velocity angst in an artificial Eden, Tan's irreverent first feature dredges up an underworld of teen dropouts, druggies, and dead-enders in Singapore.
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  • The Other Final

    Sunday, March 7 3:20pm
    The world's worst soccer teams face off in this entertaining doc.
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  • Travellers and Magicians

    Sunday, March 7 5pm
    Khyentse Norbu's modern-day Bhutanese fable mixes ordinary realities with the mysticism of fairy tales.
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  • Bright Future

    Sunday, March 7 7:30pm
    Kiyoshi Kurosawa's enigmatic, eerie sci-fi thriller of marginalized youth.
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  • On the Road: A Document

    Tuesday, March 9 7:30pm
    A lyrical film centered on a taxi driver and his family, this is ultimately an intimate portrait of the people, traffic, and sounds of Tokyo, by Noriaki Tsuchimoto, postwar Japan's great documentary filmmaker. With An Engineer's Assistant.
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  • Being Normal

    Wednesday, March 10 7pm
    This sensitive exploration of intersexuality and friendship in South Korea documents a hermaphrodite's coming out. With short Just a Woman.
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  • The Adventure of Iron Pussy

    Wednesday, March 10 9pm
    Michael Shaowanasai in Person (tentative). Outrageous genre-and-gender-bending musical Western from the director of Blissfully Yours follows the exploits of a glamorous transvestite secret agent.
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